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Joni Eareckson Tada & husband publish book on their marriage

Joni is such an amazing lady, and she and her husband (married since 1983, they met at church) have had one epic relationship all these years....which really has never been profiled much anywhere, until now.

I barely got through her NM interview years back. Glad that stuff works for her but wish she'd add disclaimers to her fans about preaching to the rest of us.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

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More power to them. For my money, I'll take Hockenberry knifing the tire of the cab that wouldn't load his chair in the snow, on Christmas Eve.

Inspiration sure comes in different forms. Somebody left me a Joni book in rehab. I was in a religious phase (no atheists in foxholes, but that preceded the sci), but it was too saccharine for me, even then.

Hockenberry being hardheaded and determined to conquer the subway stairs? That inspired me. Him bonding w/ the Palestinian kid? Inspiring. Even in his older years, he surprises me. Joni just...doesn't.

But she's played the cards she was dealt. She had a much higher injury, never got bitter, and my hat's off to her for that.

No. Two different women. "The Other Side of the Mountain" was written about Jill Kinmont Boothe, an Olympics-bound skier who was injured in a ski accident in 1955. A movie made in 1975 was based on the book. She died in 2012.

Joni Eareckson-Tada was the subject and author of the book "Joni" and was injured in a diving accident in 1967. She runs a foundation called "Joni and Friends" and is married to Ken Tada. She is still very much alive (and just wrote the book listed above). I most recently saw her speak as the key-note speaker at the Assn. of Rehabilitation Nurses conference in October 2014.